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Ohio Joe

(21,656 posts)
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 09:57 PM Apr 2013

The Amazing Life of Sean Smith

It's a pretty long read but worth it. I got the link via Blues News.

RIP Vile Rat

http://kotaku.com/the-extraordinary-mischievous-too-short-life-of-sean-481060252

The headlines around the world about Sean Smith last year were mostly about how he left this Earth. But this is a story about what he did while he was here. This is a story about Sean Smith's life—about what he did in the so-called "real" world and what he did in a virtual galaxy where he was a Machiavellian legend.

For about a decade, in cities around the world, people knew Sean as a guy in the U.S. State Department. He made sure computers and networks worked.

In the wild world of the massively-multiplayer online game Eve Online, which Sean logged into from those various points on the globe, he was known as Vile Rat.

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